Bio
- Debut
- 1946
Bio
- Debut
- 1946
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 199
- W
- 27
- L
- 47
- ERA
- 4.87
- IP
- 785.1
- K
- 450
- BB
- 522
- WHIP
- 1.66
| GP: Games the player appeared in, however briefly. | W: Games in which this pitcher was credited with the win. | L: Games in which this pitcher was charged with the loss. | ERA: Earned runs allowed per nine innings pitched — lower is better. Under 3.00 is excellent. | IP: Innings pitched. The decimal counts outs, so 6.2 is six innings and two more outs. | K: Batters this pitcher struck out. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | WHIP: Walks and hits allowed per inning pitched — lower is better. Around 1.00 is elite. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | DET | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 | 9.0 | 4 | 2 | 1.00 |
| 1948 | DET | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4.63 | 23.1 | 9 | 11 | 1.37 |
| 1949 | DET | 25 | 3 | 2 | 6.16 | 76.0 | 40 | 69 | 2.03 |
| 1950 |  BAL/CHW | 20 | 0 | 2 | 7.07 | 35.2 | 24 | 45 | 2.44 |
| 1951 | CHW | 26 | 6 | 9 | 4.20 | 137.0 | 89 | 74 | 1.48 |
| 1952 | CHW | 19 | 4 | 4 | 2.96 | 79.0 | 63 | 56 | 1.37 |
| 1953 |  CHW/BAL | 31 | 1 | 5 | 4.78 | 101.2 | 52 | 82 | 1.84 |
| 1954 | BAL | 32 | 6 | 11 | 4.37 | 166.2 | 82 | 82 | 1.51 |
| 1955 | BAL | 15 | 0 | 4 | 8.22 | 38.1 | 26 | 27 | 2.01 |
| 1956 | ATH | 25 | 4 | 9 | 5.31 | 118.2 | 61 | 74 | 1.64 |
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 22
- SHO
- 3
- K/9
- 5.2
- GB
- 0
- FB
- 0
- G/F
- 0.00
- WP
- 0
| QS: Quality starts: six innings or more with no more than three earned runs. | CG: Complete games, pitched from the first out to the last. | SHO: Shutouts — complete games with no run allowed. | K/9: Strikeouts for every nine innings pitched. | GB: Ground balls hit against this pitcher. | FB: Fly balls hit against this pitcher. | G/F: Ground balls for every fly ball hit against this pitcher. | WP: Wild pitches — throws the catcher had no chance to stop. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | DET | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948 | DET | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949 | DET | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1950 | BAL/CHW | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951 | CHW | 0 | 7 | 1 | 5.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952 | CHW | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953 | CHW/BAL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954 | BAL | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955 | BAL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956 | ATH | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What were Lou Kretlow's career stats?
Lou Kretlow played 10 seasons for the Tigers, the White Sox, the Orioles and the Athletics. He had 27 wins and 450 strikeouts with a 4.87 ERA over 785.1 innings. His best season was 1951: 6 wins, a 4.20 ERA and 89 strikeouts.
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